Seth Freeman

Seth Freeman’s plays have been presented at over a hundred sixty theaters and festivals around the world. He has written for print (The New York Times, Southern Theatre Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, California Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, the Huffington Post, The Hill), screen and television, for which he created the series Lincoln Heights. He has received multiple Emmys, Writers Guild Awards, Golden Globes, Peabody, P.E.N., First Amendment, Christopher, Humanitas and numerous other honors for screenwriting, fiction writing and journalism. He contributes non-writing time to community and international organizations dealing with health care, education, the empowerment of women and human rights.

Seth Freeman’s plays have been presented at over a hundred sixty theaters and festivals around the world. He has written for print (The New York Times, Southern Theatre Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, California Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, the Huffington Post, The Hill), screen and television, for which he created the series Lincoln Heights. He has received multiple Emmys, Writers Guild Awards, Golden Globes, Peabody, P.E.N., First Amendment, Christopher, Humanitas and numerous other honors for screenwriting, fiction writing and journalism. He contributes non-writing time to community and international organizations dealing with health care, education, the empowerment of women and human rights.

Scripts

Unplanned

by Seth Freeman

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

An anxious young rabbit seeks family planning advice from a kindly and caring turtle.

An anxious young rabbit seeks family planning advice from a kindly and caring turtle.

(verb) a play on words

by Seth Freeman

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
comedy,
drama

Some years ago, in an actual case in an American city, a young man was arrested and tried for displaying a sign with a word prosecutors charged was offensive to the community. In (verb), a play on words, another somewhat endearing, possibly troubled, enigmatic young man commits a similar offense, upping the ante by exposing the same (still taboo) word where it will be seen by young children. He is taken into...

Some years ago, in an actual case in an American city, a young man was arrested and tried for displaying a sign with a word prosecutors charged was offensive to the community. In (verb), a play on words, another somewhat endearing, possibly troubled, enigmatic young man commits a similar offense, upping the ante by exposing the same (still taboo) word where it will be seen by young children. He is taken into custody and charged. When a young attorney takes on the defense, despite reservations from the woman who shares his life, there follows an intricate duel exploring language, law, sex, ethics, and contemporary mores.

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The Cost

by Seth Freeman

Cast Size
6—9
Genre
drama

A terrific woman’s heart is giving out. Without a transplant, she will die. Her blood and tissue type make her a particularly difficult match for a donor. Amazingly, a donor is located. There is just a slight problem. The donor is still very much alive.

As it happens the patient’s husband is megarich, an extremely successful Silicon valley entrepreneur. He can pay – almost anything. But we don’t do that...

A terrific woman’s heart is giving out. Without a transplant, she will die. Her blood and tissue type make her a particularly difficult match for a donor. Amazingly, a donor is located. There is just a slight problem. The donor is still very much alive.

As it happens the patient’s husband is megarich, an extremely successful Silicon valley entrepreneur. He can pay – almost anything. But we don’t do that.

Or do we?

It is all more real than you think – the dilemma, the argument, the possibilities – although, as far as we know, the precise combination of circumstances and events portrayed here haven’t exactly happened. Yet.
 

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